Print from the series Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs

Kobayashi Kiyochika

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The propaganda print shown here was created at the height of the Russo-Japanese War, fought between the two expansionist imperial powers in 1904–5. Kobayashi Kiyochika, a major designer of woodblock prints, documented Japan’s rapid military and economic modernization and numerous wars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inexpensive woodblock prints served as a vehicle for propaganda throughout this period.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art